Mr. Trump has claimed since being called out by Marco Rubio, that he did not employ illegal workers in the razing of a building to make room for Trump Tower. Instead, for several days and again this morning on all of the Sunday political circuses, he avers that he had a general contractor who employed the workers, beyond his responsibility.

The obvious questions that eluded Chris Wallace, John Dickerson, George Stephanopoulos, and Chuck Todd are: (1) If your contractor illegally employed illegals, why did YOU, The Donald, pay a $1,000,000 fine?  And, (2) Surely, you are a good enough businessman – as you remind us daily – to know that you don’t have to pay other’s fines. Surely you negotiated into your contract protections against bad behavior by your contractors.

These interrogators are reputedly smart and clever. Each has a cast of characters crafting research and drafting questions. And each, lives to impress each other, if not us, the viewer.  Yet each missed the obvious, and Chuck Todd doubled-down on dumb. Because The Donald tweeted a quote from Mussolini, allegedly unaware of the original source. Todd asked, “Do you like being associated with a Fascist?”

The quote, “It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep” is remarkably close in substance to the official motto of the Great State of New Hampshire, “Live Free or Die.”

Apparently Chuck finds this notion offensive. And you need more evidence he’s a progressive?